Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:42 am, Kent West wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > > Thanks, Kent. I cannot install any kernel at this point, I have tried > > the old one (first) and then actually downloaded and attempted two > > others, everything comes to a halt with that error: > > /usr/sbin/mki

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I suspect neither exists, and that the system is _not_ creating the symlink on the fly as the proc file is created on the fly _or the proc file is not being created on the fly_ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: Thanks, Kent. I cannot install any kernel at this point, I have tried the old one (first) and then actually downloaded and attempted two others, everything comes to a halt with that error: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd : /dev/fd does not exist, mkinitrd failed. I am using grub, it w

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
Thanks, Kent. I cannot install any kernel at this point, I have tried the old one (first) and then actually downloaded and attempted two others, everything comes to a halt with that error: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd : /dev/fd does not exist, mkinitrd failed. I am using grub, it was installed as default

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote: Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install ANY kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an error about /dev/fd doesn't exist, and initrd didn't make. I am LOST. Boot into your sys

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote: Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install ANY kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an error about /dev/fd doesn't exist, and initrd didn't make. I am LOST. :( > At the knoppix boot command, type "kn

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread David Baron
At the knoppix boot command, type "knoppix single" This will put you into a root shell. Mount your file systems. chroot to the root file system. try to fix it -- good luck :-) On Tuesday 06 April 2004 07:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you... > I have

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 05:06 am, Nicholas Pattison wrote: Hi, thanks. I am not passing any options to initrd, only doing this command as part of building the kernel: fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image I will check after work today about the version of initrd-tools.

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mike Chandler wrote: OK, I got into my system using knoppix, then I did mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 chroot /mnt/hdb1 This got me where I needed to be, to reinstall my kernel. However, it would not install, there was an error saying "usr/sbin/mkinitrd; can't find /dev/fd" and cannot make initrd. (so

Re: Re: Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Nicholas Pattison
Two things: First: What options are you passing to mkinitrd? Seems odd for it to be trying to access the floppy drive. Second: What version of initrd-tools are you running? 1.62 is the current build in the testing/unstable tree, I believe. When I tried to use this version, it would spew o

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:35:23PM -0400, Mike Chandler wrote: > Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you... > I have Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.4, self-compiled, working fine untill... > I decided to recompile the kernel again, changing some stuff around, building > more stuff into it, a

Re: Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
OK, I got into my system using knoppix, then I did mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 chroot /mnt/hdb1 This got me where I needed to be, to reinstall my kernel. However, it would not install, there was an error saying "usr/sbin/mkinitrd; can't find /dev/fd" and cannot make initrd. (something like that...

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Adam Aube
Mike Chandler wrote: > Thanks for the replies, I booted to knoppix using the command > knoppix 2 which got me to a (looked like) root prompt, but how do I > access /usr/local/src/ to access my kernel.deb to reinstall it? 1) Mount your hard drive's root partition on /mnt/root (or something like t

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
Thanks for the replies, I booted to knoppix using the command knoppix 2 which got me to a (looked like) root prompt, but how do I access /usr/local/src/ to access my kernel.deb to reinstall it? I got to, I believe, the /usr/local/src/ which is not on my hard drive, but maybe in knoppix, because w